[DGD] DGD 1.2.105 VS2005 Crash

[Dan Bentley]

I did my compile using the free Visual Studio Express 2005 and it seems to
run fine. Though, I can't for the life of me remember what compiler settings
I used, sorry :\ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgd-admin at dworkin.nl [mailto:dgd-admin at dworkin.nl] On 
> Behalf Of Gary Preston
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:43 AM
> To: dgd at dworkin.nl
> Subject: [DGD] DGD 1.2.105 VS2005 Crash
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I'd get back into playing around with DGD last 
> night, downloaded 1.2.105 (no extra patches applied) and 
> tried to compile it with VS2005 (optimizations disabled).
> 
> It compiles without error, few warnings about the various 
> functions deprecated in the recent compiler release, but 
> nothing unusual.
> 
> Running dgd.exe then loading up a config and selecting start 
> causes a crash. Replacing the compiled dgd.exe with the 1.2p4 
> pre-compiled version from the ftp server and it works fine. 
> (Not same crash occurs when I compile from 1.2p4 source)
> 
> Running a debug version (had to define _AFXDLL and /MD to 
> compile) causes a crash during a ctime memcpy. Crash is in 
> time.c P_ctime() on the memcpy
> 
>     offset = 0;
>     for (offset = 0; t >= 2147397248L; t -= 883612800L, 
> offset += 28) ;
>     memcpy(buf, ctime((time_t *) &t), 26);  // HERE inside ctime call
>     if (offset != 0) {
> 	long year;
> 
> The actual cause of the crash appears to be within the ctime 
> function with a "not enough memory" error. However as stated 
> earlier, the pre-compiled version works fine (which compiler 
> version was used to produce that?) I'm assuming the upgrade 
> to VS2005 has broken something.
> 
> Has anyone successfully compiled dgd under VS2005 pro? Did 
> you need to tweak any compiler/linker options to avoid the 
> above crash?
> 
> I've never used DGD in windows before, always compiled/used 
> in Linux so any help here would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gary
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